apparel

noun
/əˈpæɹəl//əˈpæ.ɹəl/US

Etymology

From Old French apareillier. Doublet of parrel.

  1. derived from apareillier

Definitions

  1. Clothing.

    • fresh in his new apparel, proud and young
  2. Aspect, guise, form.

    • At public devotions, her winning modesty, her resigned carriage, made virtue and religion appear with new ornaments, and in the natural apparel of simplicity and beauty.
  3. A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical…

    A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.

  4. + 4 more definitions
    1. Furniture of a ship, such as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.

    2. To dress or clothe

      To dress or clothe; to attire.

      • They which are gorgeously appareled, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.
      • presently entered a baron and an earl appareled after the Turkish fashion in long robes of bawdkin powdered with gold
    3. To furnish with apparatus

      To furnish with apparatus; to equip; to fit out.

      • ships appareled to fight
    4. To dress with external ornaments

      To dress with external ornaments; to cover with something ornamental

      • trees appareled with flowers
      • a garden appareled with greenery

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at apparel. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at apparel. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at apparel

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA